I know it's bad to single out this particular instance. I'm sure I could find more. It's just BHASUDAHSFDJASHAUGHAUAGSDHJA2!#!@#(!@#(
That's my problem with it. Simple point, infrastructure is the physical [real] and organizational [legal, governance, hierarchy] interconnected relationship and tangible interactions of many structures. (That definition kind of sucks).
It by default is ALREADY plural.
I get the whole Architecture take on it. I really do. "Omigod, if I add an 's' to infrastructure... it makes it sound more architectural. It is a structure made of infrastructure. It is an infrastructure of structures! I AM SO CLEVER!"
Now, I'm not discounting the idea. I think it is a pretty good idea. But for the simple fact that Beatly talked about this exact thing in Green Urbanism in 1999 citing sources and practices that date back as far as the 1940s... I mean there's other books that go far back when it comes to mixed-use infrastructural facilities and industrial waste symbiosis practices.
YOUR ADDITION OF THE S DOES NOT MAKE THIS NOVEL.
Sorry, this isn't new/ Maybe this is architecture taking what other similar-slash-related-but-different fields of study have done and architecturalizing it. But creating such a bizarre hoopla over it? Okay, I get the point.
BUT YOU CRUSHED MY HEART THE MOMENT YOU WHISPERED "INFRASTRUCTURES."
I really need to sleep more than 4 hours a day. Life is so boring.
It refers to a collective. It's not inherently plural... but you don't pluralize highway system either.
That is unless you're talking about more than one highway system. Like, the highway system of Florida. It would only be plural if you were talking about differing highway systems of separate entities. Like, the highway systems of Florida and Quebec.
Since infrastructure by nature is composed of groups of objects, you'd never refer to infrastructure pluralized unless talking about two specific infrastructural systems.
Word Tantrums
Like many of the things I post, I bet you have some word or phrase that just totally grates on you. Like a potato peeler across your knuckles.
The word I've seen being tossed around lately that is the sandpaper to my cuticle is...
[url=http://www.aia.org/practicing/akr/AIAB081969]infrastructures[/img].
I know it's bad to single out this particular instance. I'm sure I could find more. It's just BHASUDAHSFDJASHAUGHAUAGSDHJA2!#!@#(!@#(
That's my problem with it. Simple point, infrastructure is the physical [real] and organizational [legal, governance, hierarchy] interconnected relationship and tangible interactions of many structures. (That definition kind of sucks).
It by default is ALREADY plural.
I get the whole Architecture take on it. I really do. "Omigod, if I add an 's' to infrastructure... it makes it sound more architectural. It is a structure made of infrastructure. It is an infrastructure of structures! I AM SO CLEVER!"
Now, I'm not discounting the idea. I think it is a pretty good idea. But for the simple fact that Beatly talked about this exact thing in Green Urbanism in 1999 citing sources and practices that date back as far as the 1940s... I mean there's other books that go far back when it comes to mixed-use infrastructural facilities and industrial waste symbiosis practices.
YOUR ADDITION OF THE S DOES NOT MAKE THIS NOVEL.
Sorry, this isn't new/ Maybe this is architecture taking what other similar-slash-related-but-different fields of study have done and architecturalizing it. But creating such a bizarre hoopla over it? Okay, I get the point.
BUT YOU CRUSHED MY HEART THE MOMENT YOU WHISPERED "INFRASTRUCTURES."
I really need to sleep more than 4 hours a day. Life is so boring.
Wow... so you can't size a url?!
The word is infrastructures.
Infrastructure is not plural, you philistine. God, why don't they teach English in school.
It refers to a collective. It's not inherently plural... but you don't pluralize highway system either.
That is unless you're talking about more than one highway system. Like, the highway system of Florida. It would only be plural if you were talking about differing highway systems of separate entities. Like, the highway systems of Florida and Quebec.
Since infrastructure by nature is composed of groups of objects, you'd never refer to infrastructure pluralized unless talking about two specific infrastructural systems.
Infrastructure should not be used in plural form, you philistine. God, why don't they teach syntax of English in school to assholes.
Name change is the result of what?
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